Many of you have been asking me questions about the Mahalo.com lawsuit, the class action lawsuit that is potentially pending against Mahalo.com, and I haven’t been able to say much, for good reason: pending legal action. But I did want to let you all know a bit about how class actions work in general, so you can know what to expect during this class action lawsuit against Mahalo.

The rest of the information is very generic, and keep in mind, I am NOT an attorney, I do not practice law, and I live in a different state than where the lawsuit will take place in court.

So what happens first? First, they are looking a number of factors like: Read the rest of this entry »

It started last week on my Twitter account, when I started receiving multiple follow requests in my email, all from people structuring their user name like this: First_Initial_Last. Every one of them had the same profession too: talent scout, writer, twitter enthusiast. Some of them had bitly links, to disguise that it was AndWriting dot com, others didn’t, and some forward to RealWritingJobs.com, through affiliate links or domain redirects. They typically have real-looking pictures on the profiles.

WHAT DO THEY DO ON TWITTER? Read the rest of this entry »

A law firm has been retained in consideration for a potential class-action lawsuit against Mahalo.com.Because it is a pending legal action, I can’t go into too much detail here on the blog or in email, but if you’ve ever written for, completed tasks for, answered or asked questions for, or managed pages at Mahalo.com, you might qualify as a member of the class or have information helpful to us.

To learn more, you can contact the law firm of Green Welling, LLP, and the attorney to whom I have spoken at:

Green Welling LLP

Attn: Nicole D. Reynolds

595 Market Street, Suite 2750, San Francisco, CA 94105

Tel:  (415) 477-6700

Fax: (415) 477-6710

Email: ndr (at) classcounsel (dot) com

If you have any information, documentation, screen captures, emails, other communications or experiences with Mahalo.com–whether or not you still work/write for them–we would appreciate your contacting the law firm to share that information with them. You can remain anonymous under attorney/client privilege, even if you are a current contractor or employee of Mahalo.com. Even *I* won’t know who you are unless you choose to be named.

If you know people who have contracted with or were employed by Mahalo.com, please spread this information around and give it to them so they can contact the law firm directly for more information.

Thank you to everyone. We appreciate your help.

Love and stuff,

Michy

I’ve been reading some of the best-selling authors out there recently: Michael Crichton, Dean Koontz, David Weber, and several others, as well as some of the not-so-best-selling, but still good writers like Cody Macfadyen. I’m really liking his work.

One of the things I noticed is that most of these authors provide very little description about the surroundings and the people. King is a notable exception, who gives a lot of description, but I’ll talk about him in a minute.

When I’m reading new writers or unpublished fledgling writers, I tend to be exhausted after reading a few short stories and I was trying one night to figure out why. It finally hit me: they give too much description. Read the rest of this entry »